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So i find myself trying to build my own laptop out of things that shouldnt be a laptop. I posted this on tech but its probably more appropriate here with a better OP: I need a small display screen that takes composite cables and is cheap OR some kind of cheap converter and a cheap screen and then I need a way to portably power the screen and another computer like device I'll appreciate any help

buy one of these niggers https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/hardware-developers/thin-mini-itx-desktop-boards.html and hook up a laptop screen via LVDS to power the everything you might have to use a battery of some kind

OP gud luck am lurking I'm interested to see how "non-canned" this gets since buying prepackaged Intel doodad and LVDS panel is basically what the OEMs do anyway

Building a laptop, with composite video signaling? That's just crazy, man. I like it. (Still) in progress of doing kind of the same actually. I ordered one of these 50$ display kit china jobs, plus a fitting flat-flex extension to being able to fit the display in a gutted 90's laptop. Back to your question, if you can get around the fact that these controller+lcd sets are glorified TV monitors, they ain't as bad. Saying that because firstly, many of these driver boards do not allow for backlight control and also because the navigation feels a bit naff, like switching channels. This guy has a good writeup all about good driving boards: http://tech.mattmillman.com/lcd/pcb800099/ Alternatives would be thrifting a car TV set, securing a good panel from an old laptop and hoping a driver board exists, or if your hardware supports it, using LVDS or even DSI, as >>807 pointed out. The first can work right away for as low as a few bucks, but keep in mind these things are bulky and might use up valuable space with uneccesary and power-hungry components like an RF tuner. The last one would be the best, saving space and with not having to fuarrrk around. Good luck OP, keep us posted maybe.

Do you know of anyone else trying this and what the results were?

>>806 Search for bunnnie's Novenna project

hotglue rasp pi into thick mechanical keyboard case. pi64 time niggers

These kind of threads are proof that these "DIY" -Pi boards are nothing more than a consumerist maker fetish gimmick and can't be used to build hardware at reasonable price with off the shelf common components like used laptop screens, keyboards, smarpthone digitizers and so on, unless those are Adafruit™ branded overpriced RSA-over-GPIO gimmicks.

>>1539 Dude, I get your hatred but be reasonable. You can get chinese parts that are pi compatible and they work just as well. I'm not OP but in my case I'd prefer a mini-itx over a pi board because of the processor architecture and the fact that most of the stuff I work with won't run on ARM processors

I did some quick googling and found this for a small single board computer that is x86 based. https://www.udoo.org/udoo-x86/ you could also try doing something with a intel compute stick.

I've been wanting a laptop with a 60% mechanical keyboard. Ideally the same layout as a Pok3r and somehow programmable. I've used a Pok3r for a long time and it beats every other keyboard, big or small. Laptops often compromise on layout or key size anyway, but still cram in stuff like arrow keys. I'd rather have less keys but good quality and arrangement. There is the MNT Reform which is not quite what I want, but it's close and it's made to be hackable. Maybe someone could make an alternate keyboard for it. http://mntmn.com/reform/ This laptop only has a 1366x768 screen which kinda is like kicking dead whales down the beach. I'd like at least 1000 pixels of height ideally. e.g. 1400x1050 like in a ThinkPad T60. I do like that it's IPS at least.

Why not build it as a cyberdeck?

>>806 I feel the same way OP. Pic semi-related. >>1538 yes

>>2603 > why not build it as a cyberdeck B O R I N G. Seriously man, all of those are boring. See my photo for a BASED cyberdeck design that has 'goggles and everything' :o ( https://imgur.com/a/h2kR0Gs / https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/comments/8yy70s )

>>2639 Holy fuarrrk that looks amazing. I wonder how that thing would look with an older ThinkPad keyboard. The Thingiverse link is here incase people don't want to scroll through reddit https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3004669

>>2639 Are those goggles hooked up via HDMI or something else? I know normal fpv goggles are radio, so I'm wondering if you hacked it in some way to make it worked wired. And wouldn't the view on the goggles get mixed together like on other VR headsets? I'm thinking about taking the screen off an x60 and hooking up one of those goggles after seeing your deck, but wondered how it worked out for you.

>>2663 If you had looked at the links even briefly you would have found your answer. https://www.getfpv.com/fat-shark-transformer-fpv-headset-bundle-viewer-display.html

How can I build something relatively small and portable that won't track me and isn't backdoored to hell

>>2781 Building something neat is one thing. Ensuring it has no backdoors is kind of a whole other sort of difficulty.

>>2781 Basically wait until a RISC-V board comes out and build it into one of these things. Or use an old motherboard from a librebooted core2duo thinkpad.

>>2789 "To address the cost of design, the project started as academic research funded by DARPA." Uhh, you sure this "open-source" RISC-V ISA has no backdoor?

>>806 the new atomic-pi looks cool and will be good for a diy linux laptop you may want to make your own cooler for it or get an old laptop cooler to cool it.